CSPAN2 National Book Festival - Sarah Broom The Yellow House July 11, 2024
Im sarah and im in harlem. I wrote the yellow house to answer what is a basic and also annex substantial question about who belongs, whose stories get told. I wanted to speak a voice into the literature. I wondered why the stories of me and my family and my nieces and nephews didnt exist in the narrative of new orleans. I wanted to make a book that was the beginning of an answer to a question about how our lives matter and how we deserved to also be on the american map and in the citys stor cities story. This book is not only a book about the house i lived in and loved and that in certain ways...